Global warming has emerged as a serious threat to humans and sustainable development. China is under increasing pressure to curb its carbon emissions as the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide. By combining the Tapio decoupling model and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) framework,...

Industrial agglomeration not only brings economic prosperity, but also raises concerns about its environmental impact. How to balance industrial agglomeration and inclusive economic growth is a major challenge for today's social development. On the foundation of the balanced panel data of 164...

Since the reforming and opening up started in the late 1970s, China’s economy boomed with the urbanization rate increasing consistently, in which urbanization has been playing a crucial role undoubtedly. As China’s political and cultural center, Beijing city has gained dramatic development,...

In China, smog pollution has become an increasingly serious environmental issue that seriously threatens its sustainable economic development. Given that smog pollution usually becomes more prominent as economic activities increase, this study investigates the causal relationship between the...

In the past two decades, land finance, a phenomenon of the financing arrangement based on land development, has gradually become a fiscal model that profoundly affects China’s economic development. Based on the theory of fiscal decentralization and environmental federalism, this study employs...